Places

Date: 1940 - 1949

By: Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/A/ca.1940/Acc.14595

Description: Cadastral map of subdivisions, some numbered, in sections 312, 313 and 314 on the corner of Brougham and Elizabeth streets, intersected by Moncrief Street. Includes acreages and boundary measurements. Sections 313 and 314 include C.T. numbers and are part of D.P. 240. Names include W. Hodson, F. & C.S. Cording, P.Chetwood Watt, E. S. Quinlan, Education Board which is currently the site of Clyde Quay School. The plan for alterations, for Mr. L. Quinlan, (builder) for a residence at 32 Brougham Street includes faint outlines of the original building. Specifications are not included on the plan but a pencilled note gives measurements in square feet. Other Titles - Alterations to residence - 32 Brougham Street - for Mr. L. Quinlan Title supplied by cataloguer for map. Title for plan taken from item Scale of map [1:31 680]. Scale of plan - [1:15] Note on verso states: Brougham Street, Quinlan Quantity: 2 map(s) on one sheet - one an architectural plan of dwelling. Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, scales vary, 77.4 x 45.4 cm.

Date: 1955 - 1965

By: New Zealand. Public Works Department. Housing Division.

Reference: MapColl-832.47964gbbd/[ca 1960]/Acc.11811

Description: Cadastral map of the Porirua East subdivision, Block 12, from Hampshire Street southwards to Carnavon Place. Streets are named and sections numbered; shows recreation reserves. Written on map: HDW 31911 Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, scale indeterminable, 73.8 x 74 cm.

Date: 1910 - 1919

From: Gear Meat Company Ltd :Maps

By: Gear Meat Company Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4796gbbd/[191-?]/Acc.37841

Description: Cadastral street map of land blocks in part of Petone, from Gear Street southwards to the Esplanade, and westwards to Beach Street. Streets are named, sections are numbered with acreage, (difficult to decipher), some groups of sections are highlighted. Ink annotation on the map highlights the Petone Technical Institute on Jackson Street. Title from Accession record. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink, coloured, on diazo photoprint, scale indeterminable, 39.5 x 40 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Gear Meat Company, 81-295.

Date: 1886

By: Koch, Augustus Carl Ferdinand, 1834-1901

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gmfs/A/1886/Acc.3319

Description: Map showing of Wellington Harbour as at 1886, from Waterloo Quay to Clyde Quay, showing harbour soundings, Queen's Wharf, railway wharf, wool wharf, buildings in the vicinity including government offices, Supreme Court, police station, harbour board, drill shed, freezing works, railway terminus, parliamentary buildings, Government House, Custom Post and Telegraph, marine telegraph, wool shed, boat harbour, Thorndon and Te Aro Baths, and several banks. Shows named Te Aro streets from Courtenay Place to Marjoribanks Street, and unnamed reclaimed streets from Wakefield Street to Jervois Quay and Cable Street, identifying the proposed reclamation corporation endowment. Includes two tables on the map, one showing class and tonnage of goods passing over wharves, the other berthage accommodation along the wharf. Soundings shown in feet. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photograph, scale indeterminable, 26 x 37 cm.

Date: 1907

By: Buck, William Seldon, 1846-1919

Reference: MapColl-832.4798gbbd/1907/Acc.6404

Description: Surveyed cadastral map of Henry Street, Ebdentown, Upper Hutt, showing numbered sections with acreage. Shows the old road, and part of the Hutt River Road. The map has been divided in two sections so it could be fitted on the one sheet. The division is through Section 40 and the map extension includes a part Section No. 121 of over 15 acres, showing the old course and the 1886 course of the Hutt River. Other Titles - Keyville, Upper Hutt. Rimutaka Survey District Block 1. Plan of part Section 121 Hutt District. Surveyed for Mr H Williams, by William S Buck, Hutt March 1907. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s) in 2 parts on 1 sheet. Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on dressed linen, scale [1:1 584-1:2 376], 50.4 x 43 cm.

Date: 1910 - 1919

From: Gear Meat Company Ltd :Maps

By: Gear Meat Company Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4796gbbd/[191-?]/Acc.37840

Description: Cadastral street map of land blocks in part of Petone, from Gear Street southwards to the Esplanade, and westwards to Beach Street. Streets are named, sections are numbered with acreage, some groups of sections are highlighted. Pencil annotations on the map concern sections numbers 115-122 and 1 and 2, Victoria Street, at the Jackson Street intersection. Four of these have the annotation 'Not Gear', while four are marked with a cross and a number. Written on recto: Gear - Petone Title from Accession record Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Pencil on photographic copy, scale indeterminable, 43.2 x 43 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Gear meat Company, 81-295.

Date: 1885

By: Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Be/[ca.1885]/Acc.14377

Description: Cadastral map showing numbered sections, with boundary measurements, between Adelaide Road, Lavaud Street and South Road (now Rintoul). Blythe Road, Pitt (now Chatham) and Dawson streets are named. Includes a school reserve. Similar to DP 787, Wellington Land District, held by Land Information New Zealand Title supplied by cataloguer Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper, backed, scale not given, 25.8 x 21.9 cm.

Date: 1955 - 1965

By: New Zealand. Public Works Department. Housing Division.

Reference: MapColl-832.47964gbbd/[ca 1960]/Acc.11810

Description: Cadastral map of the Titahi Bay subdivision, Block 2, from Thoms Road, southwards to Tangare Drive. Many streets are named and sections numbered; shows schools, community buildings and recreation reserves. Shows the names of land owner JE Stevenson, on section 1 & 2, southwest of Pikarere Street. Written on map: HDW 31566 Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, scale indeterminable, 75.3 x 75 cm.

Reference: MapColl-832.4799a/Ho/[n.d.]/Acc.37498

Description: Plan of part of Lyall Bay, highlighting an area bounded by the train line to the quarry, property owned by H D, by A D C and by C J C, and Ludlam's Gully. Shows the sewer line alongside the property, two proposed roads, the train to Seatoun, and the coastline of part of Lyall Bay. Lyall Bay is spelt 'Lyell Bay' on map Title supplied by cataloguer Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink, part coloured, on dressed linen, scale indeterminable, 32.3 x 46.5 cm

Date: 1907

By: Buck, William Seldon, 1846-1919

Reference: MapColl-832.4798gbbd/1907/Acc.6408

Description: Surveyed cadastral map of Henry Street, Ebdentown, Upper Hutt, showing numbered sections with acreage. Shows the old road, and part of the Hutt River Road and the Wellington to Napier railway. Glued to the map is a locality plan (lithograph). Map is signed for the chief surveyor. Survey calculations and pencilled notes cover the map. Written on the top right of the map in pencil: Thomas Thomson, Paekakariki, Part Sec 29, 41 feet frontage. Other Titles - Township of Keyville, Upper Hutt, being Part Section 121, Hutt District, Rimataka Survey District Block 1 Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on dressed linen, on linen backed card, scale [ca 1: 1584], 50.4 x 50 cm.

By: Beere, Edward Holroyd, 1843-1906

Reference: MapColl-os832.4799bje/Ki/[ca 1895]/Acc.40264

Description: Cadastral, surveyed, map of Evans Bay, Kilbirnie and Newtown suburbs, Wellington. Includes numbered sections with acreages and boundary measurements. Roads are named and a stream is marked and includes the note 'right to water' at Busaco Road. The Evans Bay shoreline. Written on map: New government record number 65; old government record number 17. Deposit Plan 65 Includes some pencil annotations of survey calculations. Includes the initials H.D.C. Extensive handwritten statement by surveyor Edward Holroyd Beere on bottom right of map Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink, pencil and watercolour on paper, linen backed, scale [1:2 376], 121 x 66 cm

Date: 1961

By: Martin & Dyett (Firm); Tawa Development Corporation Ltd; Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.47981gbbd/1961/Acc.9861

Description: The larger of the two maps is a cadastral map of a subdivision of Oxford Estate showing St. John's Terrace and part of Pembroke Street, Tawa. Residential sections include acreages and measurements. The second map is a locality plan showing the site of the proposed subdivision along St. John's Terrace and the junction of Pembroke Street. Roads include Magdalen Street, Lane Crescent, Redwood Avenue, Main Road, The Drive, Tawa Street and Tawa School site. The North Island Main Trunk railway is marked. Other Titles - Plan of house sections - Pembroke Street and St. John's Terrace, Oxford Estate, Tawa Scale of locality plan not given Quantity: 2 map(s) on one sheet. Physical Description: Diazo print, linen backed, scale [1:580], 32.6 x 21 cm.

Date: 1910 - 1919

From: Gear Meat Company Ltd :Maps

By: Gear Meat Company Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4796gbbd/[191-?]/Acc.37839

Description: Cadastral street map of land blocks in part of Petone, from the Hutt Road southwards to the Esplanade, and westwards to Victoria Street. Streets are named, sections are numbered with acreage, some sections are highlighted. Includes several pencil annotations on sections on the map, such as 'Not Gear', or a CT number. At Part 3x, Te Puni Street (near The Esplanade), a Maori burial ground is indicated. Part of a map made up of many sheets, extent unknown. Library holds sheets 10D and 11 only. Title from Accession record Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photographic copy, scale indeterminable, 43.2 x 43 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Gear Meat Company further records, 81-295.

Date: 1905

By: Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Hi/ca.1905/Acc.14454

Description: Cadastral map of numbered subdivisions with acreages and boundary measurements, between Norna Crescent and Karori Road, now known as Raroa Road, and Mertoun Terrace in Highbury, Wellington. The adjacent sections are numbers 29 and 28, where a wire boundary fence is marked. The majority of sections are stamped 'Sold', some include values in pounds sterling. Names include Mr. Traub's house, Parkes, Kersley, Sandholmn, A. Geary, Ewerne, Hanify, Paul. Some names are indecipherable. Values of subdivisions 150/153 and 169/170 are noted as 275 pounds sterling. Subdivision 168 is valued at 147.5 pounds sterling. Tubes are marked, possibly referring to drainage. Springs are marked in subdivision 172. Title supplied by cataloguer Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil on dressed linen, scale not given, 30 x 65.4 cm.

Date: 1943

By: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Reference: MapColl-832.4799hkcrf/A/1943/Acc.13579

Description: Map of civil defence area 15, central Wellington, during the Second World War, being the area of Brooklyn and Mount Cook, bounded by part of Washington Ave, the Wellington Show Building, Dufferin Street, Martin Square and Brooklyn Road. Zones 1, 2 and 4 are shown, with zones 2 and 4 highlighted. Fire alarm boxes and tram routes are marked, as well as streets, public buildings, schools and churches. The defence stores, Prince of Wales Park, Winter Show Building, Basin Reserve, Nairn Street Reserve, St Patrick's College and Mount Cook School, are highlighted. Written on map in pencil: Japanese area, 1943. Area 15. Title from catalogue card and cataloguer Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photographic copy, linen backed, scale indeterminable, 49 x 60 cm.

Date: 1857-1957

By: Hunter family

Reference: MS-Papers-0049

Description: The papers include an almost complete sequence of 450 letters dealing minutely with David Hunter's management of Porangahau Station (1859-1877); business correspondence of the firm of Bethune and Hunter; George Ernest Hunter's letters which formed the basis of his travel book `Round and about'; genealogies, obituaries and much miscellaneous data, some original, on the streets and social and business institutions of Wellington Other Titles - Round and about Relationship complexity - See also Robert Henry Hunter. Notebooks recording comments and criticisms of G E Hunter's `Round and about', ca 1939 [MS-1056-1059, Acc 97,810-3]; Robert Henry Hunter. Account book, 1912-1950 [qMS-1027, Acc 97,809]; and Dorothy Hunter. Notes on holdings of stocks and shares [qMS-1026, Acc 97,808] Quantity: 176 folder(s). 1 volume(s). 2 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Finding Aids: Partial piece-level inventory available. Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - Medals, camera, tin of pumonas and a writing-pad transferred to Curios.

Date: 1934

By: H P Hanify & Son (Firm); Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Hi/[1934]/Acc.14448

Description: Cadastral, surveyed map of subdivision of Lots 1-44, bounded by part of Highbury Road, Harrold Street, Raroa Road and the newly created Zetland Street, Highbury, Wellington. Lots show acreage, some show price in pounds sterling, three show dwellings. Shows an access way from Raroa Road to Zetland Street, and two small areas to be dedicated. Signed by surveyor Other Titles - Plan of subdivision of part Section 10, Ohiro Registration District, Block 6, Part Nicholson Survey District Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil on diazo photoprint, scale indeterminable, 41.8 x 38.5 cm

Date: 1950 - 1960

By: Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.47981gbbd/[ca 1955]/Acc.14570

Description: Surveyed, cadastral map of part of Redwood Avenue, Redwood, near Tawa, showing numbered sections with acreage. Title comprised of biro text on map recto (Redwood Ave) and on map (Part CT 900/80), both annotated after copy made. Other Titles - [Redwood Ave. Part of Certificate of Title 900/80] Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, scale indeterminable, 40.6 x 21.5 cm.

Date: 1960

By: Martin & Dyett (Firm); Tawa Development Corporation Ltd; Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.47981gbbd/[1960?]/Acc.9859

Description: The larger of the two maps is a cadastral map of a subdivision of Oxford Estate along part of Redwood Avenue showing Pembroke and Magdalen streets and Lane Crescent, Tawa. Residential sections include acreages and measurements. The second map is a locality plan showing the site of the proposed subdivision. Roads include Redwood Avenue, Main Road, Mascot Street, Kereru Bend, The Drive, Tawa Street and Tawa School site. The North Island Main Trunk railway is marked. Handwritten above title: D.P. 23020 Quantity: 2 map(s) on one sheet. Physical Description: Diazo print, linen backed, scales [1:580 and 1:12 480], 32.8 x 21 cm.

Date: 1934

By: H P Hanify & Son (Firm)

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Hi/[1934]/Acc.9468

Description: Cadastral, surveyed map of subdivision of Lots 1-44, bounded by part of Highbury Road, Harrold Street, Raroa Road and the newly created Zetland Street, Highbury, Wellington. Lots show acreage, some show price in pounds sterling, some are marked sold, three show dwellings. Shows an access way from Raroa Road to Zetland Street, and two small areas to be dedicated. Signed by surveyor Other Titles - Plan of subdivision of part Section 10, Ohiro Registration District, Block 6, Part Nicholson Survey District Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, ink and pencil on diazo photoprint, scale indeterminable, 40.8 x 38.2 cm